The Aryans were the Indo-Europeans who travelled eastwards and discovered the Ephedra-containing Soma plants in the Pamir mountains, which they consumed in complex rituals while stationed in the Oxus ...

Why has Andrew Sullivan started referring to Iran as Persia and Iranians as Persians? Is this some left-over English tic that has suddenly resurfaced, or is it supposed to be some kind of ...

the old language of Persia/Iran, and ‘Indo Aryan’ i.e. Sanskritic are very close akin indeed. My mother is a Parsi, so I was fascinated to see that the Aryans may well have been Zoroastrians.